update, and gardening
Mar. 21st, 2019 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7Welp. Dude rushed over to help his sick mother this morning when she was too dizzy to drive herself to the doctor, and after a few hours sitting in waiting rooms, it's just that she has an ear infection of some kind. Which is terrible, but at least straightforward, and curable, thank heavens.
(A couple years back she fell and cut her face and he had to take her for stitches, and he described it as just maybe the worst thing he'd had to do, because she was terrified of the doctor and of getting stitches and also was the person who had comforted him on the occasions when he'd had to have stitches himself, and so she knew all his lines and didn't buy them. He had no script that wasn't straight from her. I've heard this elsewhere too, that it is just so difficult to try to care for your own mother, and I am hoping I have many more years of not needing to know that firsthand.)
Meanwhile I was subsuming my worry at work by coming up with my planting and gardening plans for this year, LOL. I'm not doing much of it, but more than last year-- last year I just went to the farm and did what I was told, and put in 0 plants at my own place, but this year I want to grow dye plants, so.
Some of those are going in at the farm but I think I'll put some in at my place. A few are perennials, so I really really ought to plan that well before I put them in. It's time to fight back the Jerusalem artichoke that owns my entire tiny plot now.
(I have some hostas. I should move some of them to the farm, Farmsister needs more hostas-- they are useful in flower arrangements, for the leaves! She has plans to put a hedge in at one particular spot but work has to be done there first.)
Anyway, so far I have madder, gypsywort (is there another common name for that? i hate that one but lycopus europeaus is unwieldy and I can't spell it), dyer's knotweed, woad, and then for a project about making insect-repellent sachets I have black cohosh and camphor basil. And then I got myself some wild ginger because I want it. It was my only concession to the fever dream of a fairy garden near the yurt. (I wanted lilies of the valley but restrained myself.)
Like an idiot, somehow I failed to look up what conditions g*psywort wants (hm I could call it buglewort or water horehound, and if I called it the latter I might have been warned as to the conditions...) and it's a perennial that wants wet feet! I mean, there's the creek, but, there's no established area to plant it in. I'm going to have to explore and probably do some work to prepare a spot for it.
Anyhow, I need to do more planning work but I'm so frazzled now.
ALSO: no jaw pain today. ??? WTF. Ibuprofen yesterday midday took the swelling down and then it just... didn't come back, this time! So who knows??? I still ought to get it looked at but IDK which doctor to start with! At least I've got a catalogue of the symptoms this time.
(ETA::: MY COWORKER IS WHISTLING ALONG TO BLACK SABBATH'S WAR PIGS, IF I KILL HIM NO JURY WOULD CONVICT, RIGHT?)
(A couple years back she fell and cut her face and he had to take her for stitches, and he described it as just maybe the worst thing he'd had to do, because she was terrified of the doctor and of getting stitches and also was the person who had comforted him on the occasions when he'd had to have stitches himself, and so she knew all his lines and didn't buy them. He had no script that wasn't straight from her. I've heard this elsewhere too, that it is just so difficult to try to care for your own mother, and I am hoping I have many more years of not needing to know that firsthand.)
Meanwhile I was subsuming my worry at work by coming up with my planting and gardening plans for this year, LOL. I'm not doing much of it, but more than last year-- last year I just went to the farm and did what I was told, and put in 0 plants at my own place, but this year I want to grow dye plants, so.
Some of those are going in at the farm but I think I'll put some in at my place. A few are perennials, so I really really ought to plan that well before I put them in. It's time to fight back the Jerusalem artichoke that owns my entire tiny plot now.
(I have some hostas. I should move some of them to the farm, Farmsister needs more hostas-- they are useful in flower arrangements, for the leaves! She has plans to put a hedge in at one particular spot but work has to be done there first.)
Anyway, so far I have madder, gypsywort (is there another common name for that? i hate that one but lycopus europeaus is unwieldy and I can't spell it), dyer's knotweed, woad, and then for a project about making insect-repellent sachets I have black cohosh and camphor basil. And then I got myself some wild ginger because I want it. It was my only concession to the fever dream of a fairy garden near the yurt. (I wanted lilies of the valley but restrained myself.)
Like an idiot, somehow I failed to look up what conditions g*psywort wants (hm I could call it buglewort or water horehound, and if I called it the latter I might have been warned as to the conditions...) and it's a perennial that wants wet feet! I mean, there's the creek, but, there's no established area to plant it in. I'm going to have to explore and probably do some work to prepare a spot for it.
Anyhow, I need to do more planning work but I'm so frazzled now.
ALSO: no jaw pain today. ??? WTF. Ibuprofen yesterday midday took the swelling down and then it just... didn't come back, this time! So who knows??? I still ought to get it looked at but IDK which doctor to start with! At least I've got a catalogue of the symptoms this time.
(ETA::: MY COWORKER IS WHISTLING ALONG TO BLACK SABBATH'S WAR PIGS, IF I KILL HIM NO JURY WOULD CONVICT, RIGHT?)
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Date: 2019-03-21 06:43 pm (UTC)I wouldn't convict you if you murdered him.
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Date: 2019-03-21 07:16 pm (UTC)I'm figuring yeah, partly a few locations for robustness, and partly that some of the natural dyes, you're supposed to go straight from harvest to making your dye bath, and I'd like to be able to do that at my house, where I'm not usually so frantically busy as I am at the farm.
Also I want herbs at home and I figure if I have to have some garden anyway, I might as well put cool stuff in too. Most of the dye plants aren't pretty but whatever, lol.
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Date: 2019-03-22 01:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-22 01:48 am (UTC)Hostas are basically immortal.
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Date: 2019-03-22 03:07 am (UTC)